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Hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi declared Iran's new President

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Iran's ultraconservative cleric and judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi has been elected Iran's eighth president, the country's interior ministry has announced on Saturday. Former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei, moderate candidate Abdolnaser Hemmati and conservative candidate Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi had conceded ahead of the announcement on Saturday, reported Al Jazeera.